Illustrated official handbook to the aquarium, picture galleries, and museum collections under the control of the exhibition trustees; also description of cyclorama of old Melbourne

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...little lady-bird, Vedalia cardinalis, which tiny insect has been so successfully introduced into the orange groves of America, Africa, fec, for the purpose of combating the attacks of the Icerya Purchasii or cottonycushion-scale. A few years since the whole or a greater part of the orange groves of the above-named countries were threatened with extermination, but the Vedalia with its wonderfully voracious nature has arrested the progress of the plague, and the cottonycushion-scale has in many parts been altogether eaten up and destroyed by the Vedalia. "The Wood Borer, of which three illustrations are here given, are amongst the most destructive of our noxious insects, and preventive and remedial measures for which are given in the illustrated handbooks, Parts I. and II., just issued by the Victorian Department of Agriculture. Three of them, viz., Uracanthus triangularis, Piesarthrius marginellus, and Diadoxus pistacina, being amongst the most destructive. "The cases in an horizontal position show the various insects at work on timbers of different kinds. "One of the most instructive exhibits in this court is a case containing the external dissections of the parts of various insects. They have been prepared for the use of schools, and have already been largely availed of by pupils and others interested. "The charts which line the court represent the life-history forms of many of our most destructive insects, also illustrations of some which are parasitic on same. "An enterprising American fruit-grower has said--'Our watchword must ever be: Onward and upward, and falter not, although difficulties apparently insurmountable arise, he who will may overcome them. The time was when our glorious climate, fruitful soil, and exemption from a...